“Still Sound”

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Via Pitchfork

Chaz Bundick's secret is out: He's funky. Pulsing dance rhythms sometimes break through Causers of This' wistful sample workouts, and side-project Les Sins is something like Daft Punk on a budget, but "Still Sound", from his upcoming full-length Underneath the Pine? Well, it's straight disco. Here, a delicately melodic verse bounces along with diva-like sass, the bassline is Studio 54 in-spirit but grimy enough for the punk-funk Bundick teased in this interview last month, and there's some ridiculous go-for-broke, jazz-funk noodling in here too. The whole thing builds to a blurry, breakdown of echoing moans-- like a shy sweetheart's take on Donna Summer's dreamily suggestive "Love To Love You Baby". Bundick is a heavy-hearted troubadour trapped in a pop experimentalist's body, so he uses everything at his disposal to express, simple, gut-level feelings: Over a dub-tinged, scat-like bridge here, he confesses, "I don't want to be alone."